tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409482909880290151.post1388483606497584925..comments2018-07-28T22:17:50.569+02:00Comments on EL KAOS UT: The Hague court's ruling on Yukos final but Russia may seek annulmentEL Etoshttps://plus.google.com/111683365675203687716noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409482909880290151.post-58510088152857255692014-08-01T09:02:30.489+02:002014-08-01T09:02:30.489+02:002nd Victory for Yukos Shareholders...
The Europea...2nd Victory for Yukos Shareholders...<br /><br />The European Court of Human Rights awarded the shareholders of defunct oil giant Yukos $2.6 billion in compensation Thursday, a ruling that has left political and legal analysts split about its significance for Russia&#39;s relations with the West.<br /><br />Handed down at the height of tensions between Russia and the West over the crisis in Ukraine, the Strasbourg court&#39;s ruling comes on the heels of The Hague arbitration court&#39;s order Monday that Russia pay Yukos shareholders $50 billion in compensation by Jan. 15, 2015.<br /><br />The oil company was bankrupted by multibillion-dollar back-tax claims that the company&#39;s owners maintain were politically motivated.<br /><br />The ECHR ruled that the penalties imposed on the company through tax proceedings that stripped it of 300 billion rubles in 2004 and 2005 were &quot;unlawful&quot; and that Russian authorities had &quot;failed to strike a fair balance&quot; in their dealings with the company. The ECHR purported that the &quot;disproportionate character&quot; of the enforcement proceedings had catalyzed the company&#39;s liquidation..........http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/504409.html<br />31/7/14Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409482909880290151.post-46995952049414852882014-07-30T14:17:22.443+02:002014-07-30T14:17:22.443+02:00The decision of The Hague arbitration court on the...The decision of The Hague arbitration court on the Yukos oil company has sparked active debate in the Russian parliament on the revision of all Russia’s international agreements for their possible denunciation....<br /><br /> Deputy head of the constitutional legislation committee at the Federation Council upper house of parliament Konstantin Dobrynin put forward a proposal to check such documents, signed by Russia in different years, for compliance with Russian law.<br /><br />The Hague arbitration court ruled on Monday that Russia must pay $50 billion for expropriating the assets of Yukos, the former oil giant whose ex-owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky fell foul of the Kremlin.<br /><br />“We should urgently revise the full range of the concluded international agreements, charters, conventions in order to check their compliance with our law, their necessity and relevance for the country, as well as for possible damage in case of their application in the future, for working out recommendations for their possible future denunciation,” he told ITAR-TASS on Wednesday, commenting on actions that Russia should take after the announcement of the decision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague on a suit of former owners of Yukos.<br /><br />The official dismissed as absurd the grounds the court gave for its verdict. The court linked its decision to the violation by Russia of an article of the EU Energy Charter. Russia had signed the Charter in 1994, but never ratified it. He said, “It’s not so much the issue of the quality of Dutch justice and the negative political background at the moment of the verdict passing, as the issue of quality of Russia’s legal stance and the work of legal advisers who represented the country’s interests.<br />http://en.itar-tass.com/economy/742874Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409482909880290151.post-12230315554500730662014-07-28T19:00:12.194+02:002014-07-28T19:00:12.194+02:00La Russie contestera le jugement de la cour d&#39;...La Russie contestera le jugement de la cour d&#39;arbitrage de la Haye sur la plainte des ex-actionnaires de Ioukos et espère parvenir à un résultat juste, stipule un communiqué du ministère des Finances de Russie....<br /><br />Le ministère a fait état de défauts sérieux dans le verdict de la cour de La Haye ayant condamné la Russie à payer 50 milliards de dollars aux ex-actionnaires de Ioukos. Le communiqué signale notamment « une étude partiale et l&#39;utilisation des preuves partiale », « la révision tout à fait inacceptable des sentences des tribunaux russes », « l&#39;incapacité de la cour d&#39;arbitrage de tirer des conclusions évidentes sur le fait que les dirigeants de Ioukos étaient au courant des violations de la législation fiscale ».<br />Lire la suite: http://french.ruvr.ru/news/2014_07_28/Ioukos-la-Russie-contestera-le-jugement-de-la-cour-darbitrage-de-La-Haye-8498/<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com